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Word For The Day, Thursday, August 7, 2003
The Verbivores
| 8/7/03
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Posted on 08/07/2003 5:12:02 AM PDT by RikaStrom
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of word for the day. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the word of the day; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. Practice makes perfect.....post on....
tenacious \ten*a*shus\, adjective
tenaciously; adverb
tenaciousness; noun
1. Holding or tending to hold persistently to something, such as a point of view.
2. Holding together firmly; cohesive:
3. Clinging to another object or surface; adhesive
4. Tending to retain; retentive:
5. Niggardly; closefisted; miserly. --Ainsworth.
6. Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn..
They are free men, tenacious of their liberties and alert to lurking danger. - Ray V Denslow
Etymology: [From Latin ten x, ten c-, holding fast, from ten re, to hold. See ten- in Indo-European Roots.]
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To: white rose
good for you! will your name appear above or below Arnold's on the ballot?
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posted on
08/07/2003 8:20:42 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
All your wackos are belong to us
222
posted on
08/07/2003 8:21:30 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
("Sir, all of our Viking Kitties, living and dead are off the battlefield." Admin Mod: "Well done!")
To: CholeraJoe
i swear. 9 times out of 10 if i read a story about a whackjob, on FR, it will be someone in MT.
223
posted on
08/07/2003 8:22:31 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: dubyaismypresident; xsmommy
If you're a California resident, you have to run for Governor or they deport you to Canada.
To: xsmommy
It's the inbreeding and the 9 months of winter.
225
posted on
08/07/2003 8:24:34 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
("Sir, all of our Viking Kitties, living and dead are off the battlefield." Admin Mod: "Well done!")
To: CholeraJoe; white rose
well i guess everyone should be thankful that MT doesn't have the same requirement as CA that all residents run for governor. how's that working out up there in MT, ceej?
226
posted on
08/07/2003 8:25:45 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: RikaStrom
Tenacity is often an admirable quality. But when one is tenacious about keeping their cranium rectally inserted, well that just aint cool. Recall the father/son demented duo who attacked an old man Kansas City Royal coach last year
![](http://images.usatoday.com/sports/_sphotos/2002-09-20-gamboa-inside.jpg)
The brilliant Judge Leo Holt let the old man (30-something yrs old, btw) off with time served, which amounted to 60 days the idiot had spent in County Jail. But that wasnt enough Holt felt the need to indicate baseball itself:
"Baseball is a microcosm of the society, and as such, has both the desirable and undesirable," Holt said. "The violence that ballplayers are exposed to comes from within.
"What fan has not seen a pitcher intentionally hurl a baseball at a player's head at 90 miles per hour?" the judge said. "Who has not seen a batter leave home plate headed for the pitcher's mound, bat in hand, bent on mischief and mayhem?"
To: xsmommy
I don't think anyone wants to run for Governor up here.
228
posted on
08/07/2003 8:28:28 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
("Sir, all of our Viking Kitties, living and dead are off the battlefield." Admin Mod: "Well done!")
To: white rose
If you're a California resident, you have to run for Governor or they deport you to Canada. Isn't that cruel and unusaul punishment?
Psst... mail me an absentee ballot, I'll vote for ya.
To: Flurry
YUP!!!!!!!!
230
posted on
08/07/2003 8:29:21 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: dubyaismypresident
Ah, well, just wait until the state legislature finds out that my political role model is Vlad the Impaler...
To: white rose
Ah, well, just wait until the state legislature finds out that my political role model is Vlad the Impaler... Now you really have my endorsement.
To: Texan5
I've never broken an ankle, but for some reason I have consistently done damage to the left one as opposed to the right one - I wonder if it subconcious!!!!!
I know that kids pester pets - but what is driving me insane her is absolute disobedience about picking up the puppy - total defiance even when sent to her room. She then lost her TV priveleges, again. It mattered not.
I don't know which is driving me more nuts, the child or the bad attitude of anisette - she does not like this puppy.
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posted on
08/07/2003 8:36:04 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Gabz
i feel bad for your troubles, gabz. i can sympathize with the kid not laying off the dog, but i don't know what to tell you to get anisette to bond with the baby dog. i have never had more than one dog at a time. i wish xs2pup were not so afraid of other dogs. i hope that puppy K in a few weeks will help with that.
234
posted on
08/07/2003 8:38:17 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: white rose
COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
235
posted on
08/07/2003 8:43:23 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Gabz
Ah, the kiddo is testing her limits (and yours). The TV threat no longer works? Anisette's attitude will probably get better. That is what our vet told us when we brought the husky pup home, and our australian shephard acted like your older dog is doing. It took nearly a month, but eventually they started playing together, and haven't stopped since.
236
posted on
08/07/2003 8:43:39 AM PDT
by
Texan5
To: Texan5
not at all unlike an older child having to adjust to a new sibling! it seems like hell when you are going thru it, but it clears up in no time, really.
237
posted on
08/07/2003 8:45:55 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: CholeraJoe
Down here in the great void they blame these kinds of things on Mariah (i.e., they call the wind . . .)
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posted on
08/07/2003 8:46:34 AM PDT
by
doubled
(I ordered a new tagline from Bella_Bru, but it hasn't arrived yet.)
To: RikaStrom
The
Tenacious (D) takes a break from slapping the donkey, to slap the media....His arguments are correct....and equally applicable to conservatives.
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posted on
08/07/2003 8:47:09 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: doubled
You have your share of wackos in WY, too, doubled.
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posted on
08/07/2003 8:48:20 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
("Sir, all of our Viking Kitties, living and dead are off the battlefield." Admin Mod: "Well done!")
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